LegalAlien99
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Dear friends,
I thought I would share this little story of joy with you. As most of you might remember (see signature), I became a U.S. citizen on Friday of last week.
Today, I got a letter from DHS, post marked and sent from the Washington, D.C. DO in Fairfax, VA. The letter is dated 9/26/06. Four days past naturalization ceremony, I may add ;-).
The letter reads:
"On 02/10/2006 you, or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case." (Then it lists my A number, receipt number, case type etc).
It continues:
"The status of this request is:
Your application is still pending. If you would like to speak to an officer please go to our website to make a INFO Pass Appointment"
Okay, let us look past the mistakes in grammar in the letter they sent. Let us also look past the mistake on the oath invitation letter (those who have it, look at it where it talks about the documents to bring to the oath). There it reads "You need to being the following documents" instead of "You need to bring the following documents". Well, the form is from 1992, so sure nobody caught that in 14 years...let alone caught it before it went to the OMB to print ;-).
The letter came from the Fairfax Office, WHERE I TOOK THE OATH last week and COMPLETED my application. Is not it great how they do not even update their own records???? When I was handed the oath letter during an InfoPass appointment on September 18th, I saw a big red "APPROVED" stamp on my N-400. One would figure that they update things accordingly. Hm, apparently not.
So we all should not be surprised that A files get lost, name checks are pending and other 'fun' things...gotta love it.
Cheers!
Legal
I thought I would share this little story of joy with you. As most of you might remember (see signature), I became a U.S. citizen on Friday of last week.
Today, I got a letter from DHS, post marked and sent from the Washington, D.C. DO in Fairfax, VA. The letter is dated 9/26/06. Four days past naturalization ceremony, I may add ;-).
The letter reads:
"On 02/10/2006 you, or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case." (Then it lists my A number, receipt number, case type etc).
It continues:
"The status of this request is:
Your application is still pending. If you would like to speak to an officer please go to our website to make a INFO Pass Appointment"
Okay, let us look past the mistakes in grammar in the letter they sent. Let us also look past the mistake on the oath invitation letter (those who have it, look at it where it talks about the documents to bring to the oath). There it reads "You need to being the following documents" instead of "You need to bring the following documents". Well, the form is from 1992, so sure nobody caught that in 14 years...let alone caught it before it went to the OMB to print ;-).
The letter came from the Fairfax Office, WHERE I TOOK THE OATH last week and COMPLETED my application. Is not it great how they do not even update their own records???? When I was handed the oath letter during an InfoPass appointment on September 18th, I saw a big red "APPROVED" stamp on my N-400. One would figure that they update things accordingly. Hm, apparently not.
So we all should not be surprised that A files get lost, name checks are pending and other 'fun' things...gotta love it.
Cheers!
Legal
Scary is it not! 
